Poetry – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:48:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Poetry – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Jubilate Agno: An 18th-Century Poet and His Cat https://brewminate.com/jubilate-agno-an-18th-century-poet-and-his-cat/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:44:44 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=76041 From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known as

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]]> The Poetry of Victorian Science https://brewminate.com/the-poetry-of-victorian-science/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 18:20:34 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=65974 Watercolour portrait by William Buckler of Robert Hunt, 1842 — Wellcome Library, Creative Commons In 1848, the mineralogist, pioneer

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]]> Langston Hughes and the Paris Transfer https://brewminate.com/langston-hughes-and-the-paris-transfer/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:08:03 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=65505 By Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Gertrude Conaway Distinguished Vanderbilt Professor of Humanities (AADS and French) Vanderbilt University In his

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]]> Wild Heart Turning White: Austrian Poet Georg Trakl and Cocaine https://brewminate.com/wild-heart-turning-white-austrian-poet-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/ Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:30:05 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=48469 Georg Trakl in 1910 – Wikimedia Commons To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose of

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]]> On Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity https://brewminate.com/on-literature-the-humanities-and-humanity/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:34:58 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=58767 The painting depicts the end of the 1381 peasant’s revolt, mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The image shows

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]]> Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism https://brewminate.com/hesiod-and-the-poetics-of-pan-hellenism/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:01:39 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=49065 Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (or possibly Battle of Gaugamela), floor mosaic,

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]]> Coleridge and the Doctors https://brewminate.com/coleridge-and-the-doctors/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:55:07 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=45126 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic poet and co-author of ‘Lyrical Ballads’. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery Much of the

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]]> Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar https://brewminate.com/achilles-as-lyric-hero-in-the-songs-of-sappho-and-pindar/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:36:16 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=44170 Achilles sacrificing to Zeus for Patroclus’ safe return, from the Ambrosian Iliad, a 5th-century illuminated manuscript. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Gregory Nagy

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]]> Achilles and the Poetics of Lament https://brewminate.com/achilles-and-the-poetics-of-lament/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:31:33 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=44010 Dying Achilles (Achilleas thniskon) in the gardens of the Achilleion / Photo by Dr.K., Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis

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]]> Parsing the Poet, Bob Dylan https://brewminate.com/parsing-the-poet-bob-dylan/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:38:39 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=43872 “I’m a Dylan professor and a Dylan fan,” says Harvard Professor Richard Thomas, who teaches a popular freshman

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